OK, it’s time to ‘fess up! Since starting Blogging Crew I’ve pretty much ignored the Drupal platform and I need to put that right.
Don’t know much about Drupal? Here goes…
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize content on a website. Drupal powers a wide variety of websites, including… Read more…
One major advantage of using Wordpress as your blogging platform is the huge choice of themes available. There are literally thousands.
In contrast, Google’s Blogger platform has always had a very limited choice of templates. I mentioned on previous posts that my blogging career 
started by using Blogger, and the lack of templates really frustrated me. That was one of the main reasons I moved over to wordpress.com (the ‘lite’ version of the platform) before settling on the full fat version of Wordpress, complete with all the whistles and bells. Read more…
So you’ve started your blog, the content is great and you’re even getting subscribers to your feed. Excellent!
Now everything is going well it is VITAL you don’t lose the entire content of your blog.
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I’ve mentioned in previous posts that Google’s Blogger is an excellent platform to blog for free. However, it does have an annoying navbar as “standard” which makes a blog look a little amateurish (in my opinion that is).
However, if you have a Blogger blog and don’t like the navbar it can be easily removed.
I am often asked which is the best blogging platform?
This article is written on the basis of you being a new blogger, and I would certainly welcome any established bloggers reading the post to share their experience and knowledge with different platforms in the comment box below.
What is the purpose of your blog? Business, fun, hobby, news? Are you intending to blog long-term? Do you want to make money from it?
